We have visited Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet with Mr. Teruaki Nagasaki, Japanese Ambassador to the Vatican City.

We have updated him with the latest information on Digita Vaticana project, and asked his support.

He was particularly keen to find out if there could be manuscripts and artifacts that are related to Japanese Christians whose existences were hidden from the public and then "re-discovered" some 150 years ago.

Also, this year makes 400th year from the historical visit of Tsunenaga Hasekura, who lead the Japanese delegation and traveled from Sendai in 1613 and arrived to Vatican in 1615, to have met with the Pope Paul the 5th.

He was keen to find if any material related to Hasekura was stored inside of Vatican library.

We assured him, we will let him know first, if such finding were made during the archiving process.